History
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
From Gaucho to Rive Gauche and Back Again
Dominic Hilton discovers the extraordinary life and times of “Gaucho Laird”, R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Maggi Hambling’s sculpture is simply bad art
Perhaps if it were a simply better artwork, then Hambling’s statue would have been more warmly received
The historical role of the maîtresse-en-titre
Nigel Jones looks at how the mistresses and girlfriends of rulers have exerted political power throughout history
Bursting the bubbles
Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
“A metal barbie on the crest of an £143,000 turd”
Mary Wollstonecraft’s statue is a failed attempt to depict an “everywoman”
“Left flanking or straight up the middle with bags of smoke?!”
Not another Armistice Day to get through. And what about all the other pressing issues for which there is no poppy?
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Hail to the Chief (Part V)
Graham Stewart talks to Prof Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the end of the Cold War
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
